Archives for
November 2013

The tech world doesn't sleep, and this week was no exception. However, we know our readers need a little shut eye every now and then, so we've conveniently rounded up this week's top 25 digital media resources in case you missed a few stories. Read o...

There is no worse feeling than having to cover a brilliant t-shirt with layers during colder weather. Fortunately, the craftsmen of the Internet have come together to produce a slew of warm sweaters that still express allegiance to your fandom of cho...

Pop star Katy Perry became the most popular person on Twitter on Sunday, with well over 46.4 million followers at the time of this writing. She passed Justin Bieber, who didn't quite make it to a year with the title, and appears to be putting some di...

If your relationship involves a lot of texting, it may not be the happiest of unions. That’s the most significant finding of a study published this week on how serious couples use digital technology to communicate. Conducted by researchers at Brigham...

It’s not often that Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, uses his voice for issues not directly related to the company’s latest innovations, but on Sunday, he penned an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal regarding an issue that affects every company in the U.S. Addr...

Apple's iPhone 5S boasts a Touch ID fingerprint scanner that uses the ridges and pores of a finger (or other body parts, including nipples and lips) to identify a phone's user and unlock the home screen. While some felt the technology was state-of-th...

The company logo on Google's homepage today resembles a calculator display in honor of Shakuntala Devi, mental calculator also known as the "Human Computer". Born in Bangalore, India on November 4, 1929, Devi had the ability to memorize numbers and p...

Video games are often praised for innovatively combining play with visuals, but the best of them also build experiences to include your other senses. The perfect video game soundtrack delights your ears and your imagination. Whether it's an essential...

Google has added another odd place to the long, long list of sights you can see on Street View: a real naval submarine. More precisely, Google hired virtual tour experts C Inside Media to photograph the interior of the retired British submarine HMS O...

BlackBerry has decided not to sell itself and is instead raising $1 billion and replacing CEO Thorsten Heins with John S. Chen, the previous CEO of SAP company Sybase. BlackBerry, which had until Nov. 4 to agree to an acquisition by Fairfax Financial...

You've taken the perfect photograph on Instagram. The cropping and composition is flawless. The filter thoroughly expresses your artistic intent. It's simply too good to sit idly in your smartphone. So what next? You turn it into a dazzling work of D...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Netflix posted a series of videos to its site sh...

Hot cup of joe. Java. Go juice. Brown stuff. Sweet brown nectar from the gods. No matter what you call it, you need coffee, and you need it every morning -- at the very least. We all know what it's like wake up for work, and already be craving that f...

Twitter now expects to price its IPO at $23-$25 a share, up from the original price revealed last month of $17-$20 a share, according to a new filing with the SEC. At the high end of that price range, Twitter would raise as much as $1.75 billion from...

Just ahead of Twitter's looming IPO, IBM has sent a letter to the company charging it infringes on at least three U.S. patents. The patents refer to "efficient retrieval of uniform resource locators ," a "method for presenting advertising in an inter...

Scar may have been an evil fratricidal lion, but he sure knew how to stage an uprising. Even with his impressive public speaking skills, he still wasn't the best manager -- as evidenced by the fact he was mauled to death by his employees. If you have...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, but Susan Bellows would prefer you observe the date by remembering the president's life, not his death. Bellows produced and directed "JFK," an episode of American Experience o...

The revelation that the NSA has been secretly spying on Google data centers worldwide doesn't sit well with the search giant. In a video interview with The Wall Street Journal, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said the practice was "outrageous"...

Computer science researchers at Cornell University claim to have found a way to subvert the system driving production of the digital currency Bitcoin. The researchers call their technique “selfish mining,” through which individuals or groups of Bitco...

The world of feline fashion is a fickle, furry beast. Luckily, the new Tumblr titled "Meowtfit of the Day" offers all the cat couture inspiration you could ever need. The blog, created by Katja Wulff and Dan Sörensen, showcases Gucci the cat donning ...

A new study reveals that 8% of Americans get their news on Twitter -- people who are younger, more educated and more mobile than the 30% of Americans who get their news on Facebook. Half of the 16% of U.S. adults who use Twitter get their news on the...

Apple’s iPad Air is off to a flying start. New data from mobile-app analytics firm Fiksu suggests that early adoption of the tablet is around five times higher than it was when the fourth-generation iPad launched last year. Fiksu tracks this data by ...

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